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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/branded-health-service-medicines-costs-amendment-regulations-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1255",
  "legislation_title": "The Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/branded-health-service-medicines-costs-amendment-regulations-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service, England And Wales\nNational Health Service, Scotland\nHealth And Personal Social Services, Northern Ireland\nMade 28th November 2018\nLaid before Parliament 3rd December 2018\nComing into force 1st January 2019\nThe Secretary of State for Health and Social Care makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 263(1), (2), (4), (5A) and (6), 264A(2), (5), and (7), 265(1), (3), (4), (5) and (5A), 266(1) and (2) and 272(7) and (8) of the National Health Service Act 2006 and in accordance with section 266(3), (4) and (4A) of that Act.\nThe Secretary of State has consulted in accordance with sections 263(1) and (1A), 264C(1) and 265(9) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 41; section 263 was amended by the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Act 2017 (c.23) (“the 2017 Act”), section 5 and 10(5). Section 264A was inserted by the 2017 Act, section 8. Section 265 was amended by the 2017 Act, section 6(2) to (4), 7(5) and 10(7) to (14). Section 266 was amended by the 2017 Act, section 6(5) to (9) and 7(6). See section 275(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006 for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” that are relevant to the powers being exercised."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 264C was inserted by the 2017 Act, section 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1255/introduction",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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